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[Christopher <weblionx AT gmail.com>]

On Jan 5, 2013 1:44 PM, "Peter Green" <peter AT greenpete.free> wrote:
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> >Good work to all participating in the changes. Looks so much better now.
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> Great! :-)
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> >in comparison with the old style.
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> So the next step is to improve further. Has anyone ideas to move forward?
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> A couple of ideas I've got are possibly some sort of survey of visitors to the site, maybe using a popup questionnaire asking what visitors are looking for at the site, so we can arrange the site to maximise engagement and satisfaction.
> S.E.O. is also something to increase visitors.
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> To try and keep people on our network they need to have places to go, resourses to use etc. This requires a good search engine. I don't know what others think, but personally I find results from the main one we do have disappointing.
> Given that people new to OpenNIC will be used to the likes of Google et al, we need to offer something closer to that than we do I feel. I have researched this and tried out systems and find it's way beyond my capabilities. Maybe grep.geek could be tweaked and re skinned to look more up to date and give better results?
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> It's a shame Seth didn't keep the directory going that he started, a links directory is a great idea and would help fill a gap until search improves.
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> It could be that there isn't much to search for and that's why search results arn't great, which I see as another weakness of the network, it needs way more content!
> Does anyone remember what system Seth used? I would happily set one up and host it.
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> Another idea I had and worked on for weeks without the success I wanted was a live Linux CD that was preconfigured to use OpenNIC nameservers and have sites preset in the browsers bookmarks.
> If anyone feels that could help people get into OpenNIC that has the skills to create such a distro, I'd love to talk with them and offer what I have done as a contribution and collaborate on the project.

In my opinion it's be better to create a package for a preferred distro or two (or seven...) than make an entire new distro. I do recall someone having made a script for Linux that automatically updates the name servers. I don't see many people using a live-CD just to test OpenNIC, and may turn people off if they think they need a special OS just to use it. I'd say at most make a VM image that uses OpenNIC by default.

Either way, a package would be needed if one were to make a Live CD.

- C/WLx

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> Peter
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